Lexicographical Neighbors of Twittings
Literary usage of Twittings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1902)
"Melbourne's attack upon him seemed hardly called for, but I heard he had declared
he would not much longer endure the continual twittings and punchings that ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"What long-sufferance of taunts, and twittings, and scoldings, and vapours, and
caprices ; of pets and ill-tempers, yea, and, moreover, oftentimes of ..."
3. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord by Arnold Bennett (1920)
"You simply had to think, in the conduct of your life, about " what people would
say," and Jack, in spite of his twittings, minded " what people would say" ..."
4. The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria by Charles Greville (1885)
"Melbourne's attack upon him seemed hardly called for, but I heard he had declared
he would not much longer endure the continual twittings and punchings that ..."
5. The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria by Charles Greville (1885)
"Melbourne's attack upon him seemed hardly called for, but I heard he had declared
he would not much longer endure the continual twittings and punchings that ..."
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